Show A DUEL WITH BIG GUNS A stirring and chivalrous incident of the crimean war the following story of tho the crimean war is is going the rounds of the british press one lay day the russians sent a mes sage bage to ahn english at the time a flag of truce was flying your 58 pon lider gun said the bearer which your people call jenny is a beautiful gun but we think we have one us its rood good we should like lika to have a fair duel with her the challenge challed chal lei ge ii ns as accepted and everything ery thing arrau arranged ged for 12 nest dext day when the time arrived all the bat teries ceased firing and the ho two armies looked ou on our sailors RUD gun detachment it says gays sir doniel lyans morin mounted ted ou on the parapet add took bif their hats fiats saluting the russians hessians tle the russians returned the compliment the english pun gun was given the alist shot as the senior gun it struck the side fide of the file embrasure theu then they fired a very good shot too the third shot from jenny went clean through the russian embrasure and up went two babions gab ions the blue jackets jumped up on their parapet and cheered thinking they had bad beaten their opponent not a bit I 1 A minute after waid down wont went the babions and out came the russian gun again several more shots wore were fired from both sides bides all very good ones jenny got a nasty thump but it did her no barm at length kongth I 1 think after the seventh shot from our side we saw the russian gun clean knocked over our fellows cheered vociferously end and the russians mounted the parapet and took off their hats in acknowledgment of their defeat all the batteries then opened again thus thas ended the f great reat duel |